Marie Louise of Parma

Marie Louise of Parma (12 December 1791-17 December 1847) was Empress of France from 1810 to 1814 and Duchess of Parma from 1814 to 1847. She was the eldest daughter of Francis II of Austria and the wife of Napoleon I.

Biography
Marie Louise was the daughter of Francis II of Austria and Maria Teresa of Naples & Sicily, born in 1791 in Vienna. Marie Louise was brought up to hate the expanding French Empire, who inflicted heavy casualties on the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). However, in 1810 she was married to Emperor Napoleon I of France as a part of a diplomatic agreement, and she was an obedient wife that Napoleon adored.

After Napoleon's deposition in 1814 she was made the Duchess of Parma, and after Napoleon's death in 1821 she remarried twice to men of lesser social status. She died in 1847.